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James Franklin flips another commit as the Nittany Lions add OT Brendan Brosnan

Penn State coach James Franklin, the first 48 hours

James Franklin is officially introduced as the new Penn State football coach during a news conference at Beaver Stadium. Franklin replaces Bill O'Brien who left for the Houston Texans on December 31, 2013.
(Joe Hermitt, PennLive)

James Franklin's desire to continue to add to Penn State's recruiting class continues picking up steam as the Nittany Lions added one-time Vanderbilt commit Brendan Brosnan. Brosnan's high school coach confirmed the flip to 247sports.

The 6-foot-6, 275-pound offensive tackle is the third Vanderbilt commit to join the Nittany Lions since Franklin was named the program's 16th head coach on Saturday. Defensive end Lloyd Tubman and left tackle Chance Sorrell are the other two former Vanderbilt commits.

Penn State now has four offensive linemen in the class as the three-star Brosnan joins Noah Beh, Chasz Wright and Sorrell. Wright, a prep-school product, early enrolled and began classes Monday.

Brosnan is the 22nd verbal commit in the class and Penn State early enrolled five of those players over the weekend, thus counting their scholarships toward the previous class. Franklin continues to extend scholarship offers as the program is a little more than three weeks away from signing day on Feb. 5.

Monday night long-time defensive line coach Larry Johnson confirmed he would not be joining Franklin's staff and a report later surfaced that Johnson would be headed to join Urban Meyer's staff at Ohio State. That means the recruiting battle is likely to heat up with Johnson's strong recruiting ties and proven track record with developing defensive linemen. Penn State's original verbal commits continue to have decisions to make, but in the meantime Franklin continues adding from his previous program to bolster Penn State's.

Franklin's Penn State staff has yet to be announced though it seems likely that these recent commits must have a good idea of who is following him in order to be flipping to Penn State. There will be an official visit weekend coming up later this month which should help the new commits have a better understanding of Penn State.